The Goose Bath: Poems
by Janet Frame
(ISBN 9780980416541, RRP A$32.95pb, September 2008 release)
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'One of the great writers of our time.' San Francisco Chronicle
'Essential reading. This is a volume that alters the landscape of New Zealand poetry.' New Zealand Listener
Twice shortlisted for the Nobel Prize for Literature, celebrated New Zealand writer Janet Frame (An Angel at My Table) used to keep geese, using the base of an old garden fountain as their bath. In later years the geese went but the bath was brought indoors as a receptacle into which Janet piled her poems and jottings as she reworked and developed them. Over time the goose bath overflowed with paper, including hundreds of unpublished poems. By the time Janet died in 2004 she had named her hoped-for but elusive new selection 'The Goose Bath'.
From this treasure trove was selected over a hundred poems that illustrated the shape of her life: her childhood and the subsequent difficult years in mental hospitals; her travels around the world; her life as a writer, growing older and facing illness and death. The poems reveal her love for words, for cats, for the changing seasons, the arts and for her native country. There are love poems, meditations on mortality, flashes of humour and startling imagery. And always she celebrates the power of the human imagination.
Published in Frame's native New Zealand, this book became a Premier New Zealand Bestseller and went on to win the Poetry Section of the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. It is a beautiful and thought-provoking work, a lasting legacy from one of the Southern Hemisphere's most acclaimed writers. This Wilkins Farago edition is the first Australian editon.
Piano Piano
by Davide Cali, illustrated by Eric Heliot
(ISBN 9780980416534, RRP A$24.95/NZ$29.99, August 2008 release)
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- Special Mention - Bologna Children's Book Fair Ragazzi Awards
- Outstanding International Book - USBBY
'The sharp text ... the pictures brim with goofy details ... it all adds up to a highly satisfying uncovering of a parent's feet of clay.' Publishers Weekly
In this funny and entertaining picture book about finding your passion, young Marcolino doesn't want to practise the piano.
'When I was your age, I played for hours,' Mum insists, but Grandfather remembers things rather differently. He helps Marcolino find the musical instrument that's right for him - and it's a real surprise!
Created by two of Europe's most acclaimed creators of books for chldren, Davide Cali and Eric Heliot (France's leading children's illustrator). For readers aged from 4 to 7.
Santa's Suit
by Davide Cali, illustrated by Eric Heliot
(Hardback: ISBN 9780980416558, RRP A$24.95/NZ$29.99, October 2008 release
Paperback: ISBN 9780980416572, RRP $16.95/NZ$19.99, October 2008 release)
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- The Christmas bestseller from France
- From the creators of Piano Piano (Outstanding International Book - USBBY)
This hilarious, original and thoroughly modern tale of Santa Claus will delight both children and adults. Already a bestseller in France, the book tells the story of
Santa, who finds he has forgotten to clean his suit ahead of his Christmas delivery round - and finds the washing machine is broken!
His dog Bobo (a canny canine who reminds us of Wallace's
resourceful companion, Gromit) comes to the rescue. Armed with notes
from a sewing program he's seen on TV, he starts making a new suit - out of the
curtains!
Will the suit be ready in time for Christmas? Will Santa learn his lesson and
fix the washing machine in time for next Christmas?
Young readers will have lots of fun finding out, in this
playful comic-style book that is easy to read and
packs a delightful punchline.
Davide Cali and Eric Heliot have created a picture book that not only entertains but also brings Santa up-to-date for the modern child. For readers aged from 4 to 7.
Grow Up!
How to raise an adult by being one yourself
by John S Cheetham
(ISBN 9780980416510, A$26.95 paperback, September 2008 release)
'Practical, down-to-earth approaches to parenting that really do work' Michael Edmeades, Psychologist
From bestselling author and TV and radio psychologist John S Cheetham comes a book that will change the way you look at parenting forever. Based on 20 years' experience helping parents and kids solve a wide range of challenges, Grow Up! shows parents how they can help their kids become happy, well-adjusted young adults.
Cheetham's message is simple: you have all the skills you need - provided you remember to be an adult yourself.
His funny, refreshing approach includes case histories that provide real answers to the problems parents face every day, as well as scripts that tell you what to say when your own words fail you.
I Love Kissing You
by Davide Cali, illustrated by Serge Bloch
(ISBN 9780980416503, RRP A$29.95/NZ$34.99, February 2008 release)
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The most romantic gift book of 2008. Created by Davide Cali and Serge Bloch, the award-winning team behind The Enemy, this is a celebration of that most pleasurable and romantic human activity: the kiss. A picture book for grown-ups, I Love Kissing You relates the history of a relationship through its more memorable kisses: from the momentous first kiss to those stolen in the kitchen, on stairs or in elevators, to those in more exotic locations. Warm, funny and down-to-earth, the book features Serge Bloch's elegantly simple illustrations throughout, and is sumptiously clothbound and jacketed in a special narrow B+ format. This Wilkins Farago edition marks its first publication into English anywhere in the world.
The Enemy
by Davide Cali, illustrated by Serge Bloch
(ISBN 9780958557184, RRP A$29.95/NZ$34.99, October 2007 release)
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'Challenging the traditional notion of what a picture book is and who it is for is this stark, poignant book ... [which] boldly explores the futility of war.' The Sunday Age
'Impressive ... the award-winning team of Cali and Bloch seems set for further recognition ... Highly recommended.' Magpies
This is the year's most extraordinary illustrated book. Already a major hit in France, The Enemy is a profound, moving and poignant fable for our time about two lonely soldiers facing each other across a barren desert battlefield. Are they the only soldiers left? How can they end the war? Just who is the enemy? Created by Davide Cali and Serge Bloch, the award-winning team behind I Can't Wait (winner of France's prestigious Baobab Award, and Honour Book in the American Library Association's Batchelder Award) and I Love Kissing You. This Wilkins Farago edition marks its first publication into English anywhere in the world. For readers aged from 7 to 77.
A Dad Who Measures Up
by Davide Cali, illustrated by Anna-Laura Cantone
(Paperback: ISBN 9780958557191, RRP A$16.95/NZ$19.95, July 2008 release
Hardback: ISBN 9780958557177, RRP A$26.95/NZ$29.95, August 2007 release)
'4.5 stars. Highly recommended.' - Good Reading magazine
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Featured in the Kids Reading Guide!
What makes a dad ideal? Is he strong as a wrestler, or handsome as a movie star? Is he intelligent or sporty? Or is he just good at jigsaw puzzles and have lots of hair? One little girl is about to find out, in this funny, charming and ultimately moving 
story of her search for a dad who can measure up to the mummy she loves. Written by the winner of France's prestigious Baobab Award, Davide Cali, one of Europe's most innovative writers for children, and illustrated by Anna-Laura Cantone, twice included in the Bologna Children's Book fair illustration competition. This Wilkins Farago edition marks its first publication into English anywhere in the world.
Waiting for Mummy
by Tae-Jun Lee & Dong-Sung Kim
(ISBN 9780958557146, RRP A$26.95/NZ$29.95, April 2006 release)
'A very successful, elegant and simply beautiful picture book ... Highly recommended.' - Magpies
On the 2008 Victorian Premiers Reading Challenge recommended reading list!
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Book of the Year in Korea, Waiting for Mummy is a deceptively simple story of patience rewarded. A child waits for his mother at a tram-stop. Trams come and go, people alight, yet her devoted son waits stoically and patiently, even as a snowstorm gathers. A new edition of a 1938 story by one of Korea's best-loved writers, Waiting for Mummy has been a publishing sensation since its re-release with Dong-Sung Kim's illustrations in late 2004. It won the major Baeksang Publishing Award and was nominated as 'Book of the year' by each of Korea's three major national newspapers. It is currently on the shortlist for Germany's major kids book prize, the 2008 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis. This Wilkins Farago edition marks its first publication into English anywhere in the world.
Life getting on top of you? This double audio CD provides stress-reducing strategies to help relieve work-life pressures from some of Australia's leading psychologists and life coaches. Fourteen audio tracks help you refocus your mental energy and learn to relax and enjoy life again. Produced in association with the Cheetham Consulting Group, part of the proceeds from sales go to the Skyline Education Foundation.
